For over 20 years, Caroline Ravenall has dedicated her career to exploring the intersection between leadership, personal mastery, and organisational innovation. She has a passion for increasing entrepreneurial vitality and energy in organisations and has worked globally with organisations like Deloitte, Ernst and Young, Facebook (Meta) Autodesk, Mercantile Bank, and Delta Airlines to help leaders and teams build their resilience and creativity in the challenging world of work.
Before embarking on her successful career as an organisational therapist (management consultant) and executive coach, Caroline was a senior executive in one of the most maverick companies in the world – Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. She was responsible for spearheading the set-up and launch of Virgin Atlantic Airways in South Africa in record time, which Richard himself hailed as one of the most successful in Virgin’s history. However, her leadership path was not an easy one and she met many challenges along the way, which forced her to radically change the way she approached her life and leadership.
We have invited her to speak at our event in September, because she not only brings a wealth of experience around leadership creativity and organisational design, but also talks authentically and candidly about her own challenges, the impact of change, and what it means for leadership in the future. She’ll also be sharing stories about Virgin’s and Branson’s philosophies that have made them so successful, and there will be ample opportunity to ask questions.
Caroline currently lives in the UK (don’t hold that against her!). She is half-English and half-Irish and has lived and worked in diverse cultures around the globe including the United Kingdom, European Union, United States, Australasia, India, and South Africa (where she lived for 25 years).
The South African Pork Producers’ Organisation (SAPPO) coordinates industry interventions and collaboratively manages risks in the value chain to enable the sustainability and profitability of pork producers in South Africa.
